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Show 387 lower reaches , and both streams have ( canyon caiiyon ) , walls wbiell are very precipitous . Again find ( foldings foldiligs ) of the ( earth-of earthof ) the sediment at various ( places- places ) wbich have formed archings of the rocks on the surface . These in cases tend to divert the ( stream' stream ) and they cause the ( stream strealn ) to cut through , forming , deep canyons . These structures are called ( anti- anti ) clines in general , and the fills between the structure synclines . ( ( E R ) . 1339-1340 . ) He is familiar with that part of the country that lies immediately south of the ( Denver Deliver ) ( aiidi ancE ) Rio Grande railroad and on the east bank of the Green River . That country is rather a high ( pla- pla ) teau , dissected by streams or ( run-off runoff ) . The erosion oil the west side of this , however , is much less abrupt than on the east side . It is a country of sand rocks or sandstones , as they ( call c7iiill ) them , and shales . The shales are soft , ( leaving leaviiig ) the harder sandstones standing out as ridges or cliffs ( through through- through ) ¬ out the area . On the top , and even on the west side , there are certain areas in ( which 'which which ) wild grass ( -will will ) grow , and cattle could graze ( on oil ) this wild grass ( be- be ) tween the Green and Colorado ( Bivers Rivers ) . ( ( E R ) . 1340-7 1341 . ) As you approach a point about ( twenty-five twentyfive tweiaty-five tweiatyfive ) miles , or ( twenty-eight twentyeight ) miles above the confluence ( of' of ) the ( t-wo two ) streams , the country suddenly breaks off , drops a thousand feet in elevation , and you have a ( barren baTren ) area which continues clear down to the confluence of the two rivers . That is the colldition you filid between the two rivers . . ( R . 1341 . . ) |